St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
THE ROTHSCHILDS.
HONESTY THE FOUNDATION We
THEIR COLOSSAL FORTUNE.

THEIR COLOSSAL FORTUNE.
MAYER Amscheps Humble Start ana inc
Secret of His Wealth-The FINANCIAL
Rulers of INSTRUMENTATION Mayors area'
s+ro1eprasent Condition of the House,
A work has recently been issued IN
London entitled "The Rothschllds-Ine
Financial Rulers of Nations he
author, Mr. John Reeves, gives al in'ol
esting account of the rise OF the great
family of financiers, whose ancestor was
the humble Hebrew, Mayer Amsche,
Rothschild. From being dealers IN olo
coin in an unpretending shop III the 'u.
dengasse, in Frankfort, the 1ouhoer ~
the family and his sons rose ~'',in
quarter of century, by tnelf shi,l
and financial abilities, TO be the trusted
friends and advisers of the relgnlhg
princes of Europe. The eternal want Oh
;hese latter-monev-Was the oppol'u
oitv of these skillful manlpuiatols VI
oans But Mayer Amschel was grea.ty
| trusted He was financial agent " 'n1
Landgrave William TX, OF Hesse CssSels
and as such collected the dlVldehus "a
he bulk of that princes large lorsune'
which was invested in the Engllsh lunus,
IS being at that time the only SAFE a,iu
trustworthy investment. 10 queue 'no
author:
The commission he charged for TINS Dusl-
less must of itself have amounted " a. ar
| he way in which Rothschild managed ms
affairs NAV be inferred from the fact thaI ne
rave Rothschild's third son. Nathan, "hen
11e established himself in London f'lll power
o deal with his stocks as he deenleu p:si
and transferred to him all the business "nio WIZ
His confidence must have been great as
Nathan Rothschild was allowed periect ~
| .rrv of action, aud could sell out ana rem
vest the stocks contided to MIN as lac
| pleased
The control over the large sums OF
money belonging to the LandgraVe
doubtless assisted the Rothschilds as much
IN their prosperous career as their o".
abilities and their faithful observance OF
their ancestors precepts. MI. reeves
describes the death-bed scene, at "n1cn
the dying millionaire impressed these
precepts upon his sons, as follows:
MAYER Amschel Rothschild died septem-
Der IS, 1910, in his sixty-seventh year. Iuse
before his decease he summoned MS I'VE SIS
| % his bedside, and with his last breath, a1ter
giving them his blessing, enjoined them 70
:e1nain faithful to the law Of Moses TO re-
| main united until the end, and to undertake
nothing without having first consulted thelr
mother (who survived her husband by many
years. dying in 1s49 at the rlpe olo age - %
ninety-sixl. "Obserye these three points,
and you will soon be rich amongst the ricn,
est, and the world will belong to you'-a
prediction that has been fulfilled to the
letter. He left five sons, Anselm Mayer
Solomon, Nathan. James and carr, VINO
soon after his death, established pentarchy
Anselm retaining command OF the orlglnal
house in Frankfort, whilst the Others
founded new branches in Vienna, LONDON
Paris, and Naples respectively.
United action has enabled the de-
scendants of Mayer Amschel to con-
troll the money markets of the world.
They carried out the idea of unity
even to the intermarriage OF the cousins,
thus retaining the money lin the tam
ily." The rule was of late years first
broken through by the marriage OF one
of the daughters of the house to 3
Christian nobleman. There were not
wanting generous traits in the characters
of most of the leading members of the
family, and the princely scale upon
which they practiced charity, especially,
to their own co-religionists, is marked
feature of their conduct. A story is
related of a great financial opera
ton executed by Nathan Meyer
Rothschild, the founder of the
English firm, and the most remarkable
of all Mayer Amschers sons. A born
speculator, he found himself in the
midst of an incessant whirlpool OF
gambling and speculation, from which
none but one possessing, as he did, 8
cool head and a shrewd intellect, coulc
have emerged with flying colors. The
sudden return of Napoleon from Elbs
shattered all his golden dreams and sc
filled him with anxiety that he pro
ceeded to Belgium and followed close IL
the wake of the English army. AS ap
pears from the following extract the
battle of Waterloo was watched by hin
most anxiously.
When at length the Duke of Wellington
took up his position at Waterloo, Nathan
Meyer felt that the critical moment on which
hung the fortunes, not of Europe alone, but o
the Rothschilds also, had arrived.
When Napoleon's Old Guard were driver
back by the British bayonets in the creates
confusion and disorder, Nathan Meyer, VIII
was on the battlefield, spurred his hors
back to Brussels.
Having made his way to England a
fast as post-horses could carry him, ant
in spite of tempetuous sea which neces
stated his offering 1900 francs to a fish
ermen, as bride to take him across
He was next day to beseen leaning agains
his well-known pillar on the Stock Elk
change, apparently broken in health an
spirits, and looking as if he had been over
whelmed and crushed by some direfu
calamity. The greatest gloom and dc
spondency had for days prevailed in the city
and as men looked at Rothschild, and the
significantly at each other, they seemed t
come to the conclusion that the worst wa
yet to be known. The gloom all
dependency were not lessened when
rumor became current that Rothschild ha
told friend in confidence that Bluchel
with his $4,000 Prussians, had bee
defeated on June 16 and II, 8
Ligny, and that Wellington coul
not hope to arrest Napoleon's yictoriou
forces The funds dropped rapidly
But the next afternoon a sudde
wild reaction set in. 1t was everywhere re
ported that Wellington was victorious. M